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Working on large upgrade of MySQL 4.1 running Innodb to MySQL 5.0 and doing oprofile analyzes we found very interesting issue of buf_get_latched_pages_number being responsible for most CPU usage. It did not look right. The close look revealed this is the function which is used to compute number of latched pages in Innodb Buffer Pool, […]

This week I already had two serious performance regression cases when upgrading from MySQL 4.0 and 4.1 to MySQL 5.0. By serious I mean several times performance difference not just 5-10% you often see for simple queries due to generally fatter code. The problem in both cases was MySQL 5.0 broken group commit bug. First […]

I generally find MySQL Sever sufficiently tested, meaning at least minor version upgrades rarely cause the problems. Of course it is not perfect and I remember number of big issues when some releases could not be used due to behavior changes in them and when something had to be rolled back in the next release. […]

I already wrote couple of weeks ago I keep most of my systems on MySQL 4.1 still as they will not benefit from MySQL 5.0 features anyway while I do not want to likely loose a bit of performance and possibly deal with new bugs and changes introduced in MySQL 5.0 (You never know where […]

Today I’ve upgraded MySQL Server on the host running MySQL Performance Blog. MySQL 4.1.12 was running here for well over a year before that. Why Have not I upgraded before ? Well because it just worked fine. Yes I know there were some security fixes but I have dedicated server with remote MySQL access closed […]

Percona is glad to announce the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on Novmeber 25th 2014. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories. We’re also happy to announce that Ubuntu 14.10 and CentOS 7 users can download, install, and upgrade Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 from Percona’s software repositories. Based on […]

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.6 on November 3, 2014. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. We’re also happy to announce that Ubuntu 14.10 and CentOS 7 users can download, install, and upgrade Percona XtraBackup 2.2.6 from Percona’s software repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL […]

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.21-70.0 on October 30, 2014. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories. We’re also happy to announce that Ubuntu 14.10 and CentOS 7 users can download, install, and upgrade Percona Server 5.6 from Percona’s software repositories. Based on MySQL 5.6.21, […]

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.36-34.2 on March 25th, 2014 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.36, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.36-34.2 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release […]

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.16-64.2 on March 25th, 2014. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.6.16, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.16-64.1 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. All of Percona’s software is […]